Monday, July 30, 2018

𝗗𝗢𝗨𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗦𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗦 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗛! PUZZLE #189: Wordy Web 2

DOUBLE SEVENS MONTH!
PUZZLE #189
WORDY WEB 2

To conclude Double Sevens Month, I've decided to create a puzzle that I haven't made in a long while (Specifically, October 2015)! I don't have much to add to that, so I'll just jump straight to the directions:

This Web's set up with Circles and Strands, but there are no letters with which the words are woven. To complete this puzzle, enter the answers to the Circles' clues (numbered 1 to 6) clockwise around the concentric rings of the Web, though it's up to you to determine the starting point for each Circle. All of the Circles' clues are presented in order. To help figure out the Circles' staring points, fill in the Strands' answers (marked with A to L) starting at each respective letter and traverse the Web from left to right. Some of the strands have only one answer, while others have two.

Once you've completely filled in the Web, the letters in the red spaces, reading down, will spell out this week's FINAL ANSWER: an appropriate two-word phrase


CIRCLES
1) Movie that makes the audience break out the tissues
    Longest river entirely in Switzerland: Var.
    Join the military
    Temporary, like a solution
2) Heavy metal band that dresses up in elaborate alien warrior costumes
    Word that rhymes with "joker" and "smoker" in a Steve Miller Band song
    Impreza car manufacturer
    Mark Antony's wife (or a gray, cello-playing pony)
3) "Sure thing, boss!": 2 wds.
    Govt. agency formed in 1970
    Giant green dinosaur idolized by the Rugrats
    Emma Stone's character in La La Land
4) Hypnotic Jungle Book snake
    The act of keeping someone up-to-date (anagram of PARIS PAL)
    Marshmello's music genre: Abbr.
5) Customizable avatar playable in Wii Sports
    Dire _____ ("Walk of Life" band)
6) Foam packing pellet

STRANDS
A) Golden Girls actress McClanahan
B) Galahad's garb
C) Q-Tip, for one
D) Empty TV schedule slot: Abbr.
    Guybrush from the Monkey Island games, for example
E) "Oh, _____ sock in it!": 2 wds.
    Like a peacenik: Hyph.
F) Archibald from Veggietales, e.g.
    The Smashing Pumpkins' first music video (HINT: It's one letter off from a destructive Hindu god)
G) The _____ Showman (musical biopic about P.T. Barnum)
    Sasha's older sister
H) Makes drip coffee
    Column that may be Ionic or Doric
I) Acclaimed video game where you play as the goddess Amaterasu
    Word that follows "cutting", "leading", or "straight"
J) Perspective used in The Legend of Zelda for NES: Hyph.
K) Emulate a thief
L) The first T in TNT

Once you think you know what the FINAL ANSWER is, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com (though I'm more likely to check the second one) and I'll put your name on a solvers list once I post the answers in about two weeks. You can also use those email addresses to give me some comments and feedback (or get a hint from me in exchange for a "hint star", more details for that are on the sidebar to the right) or send me the answer to last week's puzzle, if you haven't already figured it out. If you have a printer and want to solve this puzzle on paper, just head below the break for a version you can print out!

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